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Origins - The Babylonian and Egyptian contribution to Western Astrology

The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK

This event is unique in the USA. For the very first time, staff from the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK will be teaching an intensive, exploring the Babylonian and Egyptian contribution to Western Astrology.
Your teaching staff will be Nick Campion Ph.D. and Bernadette Brady M.A.

There are two approaches a delegate can take to this 3-day intensive:

You can simply come along with a desire to deepen your knowledge of the history, philosophy and practice of ancient astrology.

– or –

You can apply to take the MA and, if successful, decide to take up an offer of a special scholarship of 20% off the first year’s fees, which is available to delegates only.

The MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology Programme is a distance-learning programme run by the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, the third oldest university in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge.

Additionally you have the following Asteroids and Objects built in:
True and Mean Lilith, Chiron, Pholus, Nessus, Lilith (Asteroid), Ceres,
Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Isis, Quaoar, Sedna, Vulcan, Part of Fortune,
Part of Spirit, Vertex.

You can cast your charts from the years 1200 - 2399 for all those
objects, Sun - Pluto along with the Nodes and Liliths, Quaoar, Sedna
and Vulcan even from 0 - 2399.

There are two Zodiacs, one with twelve equal signs, the other with
those twelve equal signs surrounded by 13 differently sized signs that
reflects the actual sky at night.

Conference abstract:

Astrology as a way of understanding the world has
woven its thread into cultures since Mesopotamian times. Along with its
technical descriptions of calculation and interpretation, whether written
on clay tablets or vellum, using stylus, quill or printing press, it
has also taken form in sculpture, mosaics and painting, as well as inhabiting
such esoteric bodies of knowledge as Kabbalah, alchemy and magic. Modern
scholarship, viewing astrology from the outside, pays little attention
to the language incorporated in such esoteric lore and has assigned it
solely a cultural meaning, assuming astrology to be a form of divination,
shaped by Aristotelian cosmology and Neo-Platonic philosophy. In so doing
the Academy has failed to understand that astrology forms a lingua franca
stitching together multiple paradigms of thinking. These fall beyond
cultures, and bind, underpin and flow through them, reflective of and
inherently part of human experience.

Speakers:

Ronald Hutton
Professor
of History, The University of Bristol 'The Strange History of Astro-Archaeology'

Elliot WolfsonAbraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies,
New York University 'Theosis, Vision, and the Astral Body in Medieval
German Pietism and the Spanish Kabbalah'

Kocku von Stuckrad
University
of Groningen (from September 2009) 'Jewish Astrological Imagery in Late
Antiquity'

The C*I*A is a growing global network of Astrologers who
aim to unite astrological thought and ideas and promote a greater understanding
worldwide. We focus on the Anima Mundi, the astrological outlook for every quarter
at Solstice and Equinox cardinal Ingresses. We invite all to a partcipate in consciously
co-creating our future through the lens of Astrological thought and ideas. HQ are in Melbourne Australia

Yogastrology, released in 2008, is the creation of yoga therapist Diane Booth Gilliam, MA, CYT. There are several ways to use Yogastrology and each way is designed to enhance health, wellness, and understanding of yoga and astrology. Traditional astrology correlates every sign of the zodiac with an area of the human body. Yogastrology brings these correlations together with yoga. There's yoga for your sun, moon or rising sign. Yoga for the Current Sign, an online journal, is published monthly.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky
in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Stellarium works on Windows, Mac and Linux Computer.

Astrolo-Chi® is a new body-centered, yin & yang approach to the
Zodiac, developed by tai chi instructor Daniel Lally and professional astrologer
Jeff Baugher in 1999. Astrolo-Chi® teaches the twelve signs of the Zodiac
step-by-step with a series of body movements similar to tai chi.

As one of the largest astrology portals WWW.ASTRO.COM offers a lot of free features on the subject. With high-quality horoscope interpretations by the world's leading astrologers Liz Greene, Robert Hand and other authors, many free horoscopes and extensive information on astrology for beginners and professionals, www.astro.com is the first address for astrology on the web.